Contributed by Erin Shay
Metric hits it loud with their newly released single from their up and coming album Synthetica, officially out in June. Youth Without Youth is rowdy, large and totally in charge. This kick ass song is a roaring expression of youthful angst with all the carefree sensibility of seventies sleaze. Huh?! You will have to take our word for it. Turn that hell raiser up and go wild!
Metric 
(Facebook)
Rating 8
Contributed by Erin Shay
UK-based foursome Yuck showcased their 2011 debut self-titled album and new single “Chew” during a relaxed late afternoon set at Coachella a few weeks back. The track comes from the band’s forthcoming (little known-about) release and is booming and outrageous. Definitely a good sign on the horizon for the endearing young band.
In general, Yuck are an extremely likable 90’s musical omelet with a drawn out psychedelic vibe and just the right amount of raucousness, distortion and understated enthusiasm to remind one of the Pumpkins, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. These cats are definitely worth checking out for their flavored, playful lyrics, spaced out lulls and shrieking guitars. The group are also known for a compelling aesthetic and extremely groovy album art, compliments of vocalist Daniel Blumberg.
Rating 8
A note for our local LA fam: There’s a gig happening at The Airliner in east LA this Thursday (tomorrow) that you need to know about. Mouser and You Tell Concerts are joining forces to present Dirt Dress, Buffalo Electric, Honeybear, and the alt-comedy stylings of the one and only Mike H at The Airliner! B3SCI has a pair of tix to giveaway for the show, just email us and say that you want to go! Just like that. We’ll be picking our winner at random on Thursday. Get more info on the show and tickets here. See you there!
The Airliner 
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Blogo-noisers 2:54 recently debuted a new single titled “Creeping“. Amongst all the rave, 2:54 will open for The XX at their comeback gig in London on May 15th. Take a step back and the music speaks for itself.
Along with quite a few other things, The Ruminaters bring a little of that Strokes friendly swing back to garage rock with “Timmy”. The young four piece out of Sydney definitely know their way around some raucous. Grunge-tim-tim#TIMMMAYY
The Ruminaters 
(Facebook)
Rating 7.8
“Slaves” is a new cut off Jakwob’s forthcoming The Prize mixtape that also features the vocal stylings of breakthrough act, 14th. Need we say more?
Jakwob 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
UK newcomers Tired Arms have recently adapted this appropriately subtle version of “You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are” from Keaton Henson’s debut LP release, Dear…, which (worth noting) is easily one of our top albums of 2012 so far. Grab an exclusive download of the remix below and take notice of the tasteful workings of this fresh English production team on the up.
Keaton Henson (Facebook)
Rating 8.6
Rufus Wainwright has just released his seventh studio LP Out of the Game. The album is a result of his recent collaboration with friend and producer Mark Ronson. It showcases a mature Wainwright with some of his most honest and intuitive song work to date, with songs being rooted in recent life experiences and personal relationships. The genre-blending album of 70s inspired songs was developed among the two collaborators over a period of six months, followed by an inspiring recording session that tracked 16 songs in just eight days. The album features live takes from musicians out of Ronson’s all-star rolodex as well as appearances by The Dap-Kings, Sean Lennon and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
B3SCI has an autographed vinyl copy of Out Of The Game for one of you lucky, mad-b3scientists out there. Just email us saying you’d like to be entered into our drawing for the album. That simple, and we will pick our winner at random this weekend. Good luck.
Rufus Wainwright 
(Facebook) (Purchase OOTG)
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May 09- Brooklyn Academy of Music – New York, NY
May 11 – Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA
May 12 – Orpheum Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
May 13 – Humphreys – San Diego, CA
June 10 – Festival Stage – David Pecaut Square, Toronto, ON – FREE
June 15 – Love Over and Over –
The Songs of Kate McGarrigle – Massey Hall – Toronto, ON
June 30 – The Power Center – Ann Arbor, MI
July 25 – Penn’s Landing – River Stage – Philadelphia, PA*
July 27 The PAC at SUNY Purchase – Purchase, NY*
July 28 – Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center – NY
July 29 – Bank of American Pavilion – Boston, MA*
July 31 – State Theatre – Portland, ME*
August 01 – The Green at Shelburne Museum – Shelburne, VT*
August 03 – House of Blues – Cleveland, OH*
August 04 – Carnegie Music Hall – Munhall, PA*
August 05 – Iroquois Amphitheater – Louisville, KY*
August 07 – Buskirk-Chumley Theater – Bloomington, IN*
August 08 – Bank of America Theater – Chicago, IL*
August 10 – Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, WI*
August 11 – Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater – Apple Valley, MN**
Rufus Wainwright (Facebook) (Purchase OOTG)
Contributed by Nathan Hetherington
“Father Look” is a delicately foreboding album track lifted from Sparrow and the Workshop’s 2011 release, Spitting Daggers. The video features the trio’s obliging parents in what appears to be the behavioural attributes of a mid life crisis. Given the lyrical content I say fair play, especially when set to this blend folk-rock topped with Jill O’Sullivan’s alluring and plangent vocals.
Sparrow and the Workshop 
(Facebook)
Rating 8
Weekends can be somewhat, and notoriously, lame nights to go-out in LA… unless of course there is something special on your locals-only radar. This Saturday night we got you. Need You and Liaison are throwing an elevated audio/video event at a secret location in Downtown LA with Soul Clap (as part of his E Funk: The Album Tour), Thugfucker, and Pillowtalk, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway! Check out more on the party here and drop us a message that you want to go! We’re picking our winners at random on Thursday, godspeed b3scientists.
Downtown LA. (Info)
Contributed by Nathan Hetherington
So Tom Vek’s new video (below) takes us on an emotional journey through love and betray, all while taking in a total of 17 wheelies on a remote controlled monster truck! You’ll stay is actually another top quality tune from Vek, so if a few easy low budget videos means we don’t have to wait 5 years for another album then we’re all all for it. (Truck not listed on eBay yet, which is a shame)
Rating 8
Hanni El Khatib delivered a no bullshit survey of American rock history Friday at Boston’s Brighton Music Hall. To riffs first questions asked later blues to the summery sheen of 50’s-inspired doo-wop, El Khatib and his assembled backing players, drummer Nicky Fleming-Yaryan and multi-instrumentalist Hayden Tobin adeptly traversed a diverse 60 minute span.
Highlights from the set included the brooding, punchy “Garbage City” and the brustling “Come Alive”. However, Khatib’s superb playing (dude is a beast with the solo skill) and intense quality of performance (Hanni don’t hurt us!) is what stood out most. That, and a shake-you-to-your-insides cover of Funkadelic’s “I Got a Thing”. (Seriously, by the end of the song the bass was beginning to “smoothie-fy” my internal organs).
Hanni means it. Every bit of his band’s hour long set felt real. It’s kind of a hackneyed sort of notion. “The performer was real”. “He delivered an intense set”. Every great, even OK, live performer certainly means it, they mean for something in performance, but with El Khatib you could feel something very special in the type of urgency evident in his set. He has to do this.
Look out for Hanni’s b3sci-recommended debut from last year, “Will the Guns Come Out?” and be sure to make like us and catch his A+ live show when he hits your city.
Hanni El Khatib (Facebook)
